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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Maillet, Arnaud. Claude glass. New York : Zone Books, 2004 (OCoLC)645825898 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnaud Maillet |
| ISBN: | 1890951471 9781890951474 |
| OCLC Number: | 55016164 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
| Description: | 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Definitions : characteristics and aspects -- Problems of naming -- Problems of historical sources : the disappearing mirror -- Demoniac mirrors -- Catoptromancy -- Magnetism, hypnotism -- Disquiet -- Fascination -- Regarding the eye and the visual field -- A reductive mirror : regarding tonality -- An idealizing mirror -- Limits on the use of the Claude mirror -- Toward deception and beyond -- Devaluation -- Abstraction(s) -- An irremediable loss. |
| Other Titles: | Miroir de Claude. |
| Responsibility: | Arnaud Maillet ; translated by Jeff Fort. |
Abstract:
"Arnaud Maillet's The Claude Glass is a contribution to the history of Western visual culture. In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth-century, Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding of visual experience and meaning in relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination. Many are familiar with the Claude glass as a small black convex mirror used by artists and spectators of landscape to reflect a view and make tonal values and areas of light and shade visible. Maillet, in this account, goes well beyond this particular function of the glass and situates it within a richer archaeology of Western thought, exploring the uncertainties and anxieties about mirrors, reflections, and their potential distortions.
He takes us from the background of the "black mirror" through a full evaluation of its importance in the age of the picturesque, to its persistence in a range of technological and representational practices such as photography, film, and contemporary art."--Jacket.
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